--- title: The next day, as Whitey was munching a few leaves of cabbage out of… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The next day, as Whitey was munching a few leaves of cabbage out of the corner of her house, the fox stole up to her door, determined to carry her off to join her brother in his den. Who acts: Whitey, fox. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whitey, fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:13:47 # text = The next day, as Whitey was munching a few leaves of cabbage out of the corner of her house, the fox stole up to her door, determined to carry her off to join her brother in his den. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 Whitey Whitey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 munching munch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 acl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 cabbage cabbage NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 out out ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 determined determine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 off off ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 join join VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **munch** | past · progressive | Whitey | a few leaves of cabbage | | the corner of Whitey's house | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 2 | **steal up** | past | the fox | | | | day | to Whitey's door | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **determine** | participle | the fox *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **carry off** | to-infinitive | the fox *not said here* | Whitey | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 5 | **join** | to-infinitive | the fox *not said here* | Whitey's brother | | fox's den | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/13/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/13/48/) - ↑ back to [The Three Little Pigs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/13/)